Approximately 75% of Interlibrary Loan (ILL) requests are for journal articles. Some requests are for articles which are actually available electronically to us via our existing subscriptions. This creates needless delays for our users as well as extra library staff labour and expense.
On Friday 18 September we are launching a new process for requesting journal [...]
The Library Catalogue contains records for over 40,000 online books, journals, indexes etc. It is now possible to limit your searching to these records – many of which link to electronic versions of the full text.
You can search these records by keyword from the front page, or you can limit any search to records for [...]
From this Easter break (April 9th 2009), the University Library is trialling a new self service option for library patrons. You can now extend the due date(renew) of your overdue library books, as long as :
• the item is a 28-day or 90-day loan.
• the item is less than 7 days overdue.
• you [...]
Our tests were very successful so we began loading ejournal and database records into the catalogue last week. We now have over 8,400 ejournal titles added from thirteen database sources and expect to add more than 50,000 ejournal titles from over 300 sources by the time this project enters its maintenance phase in July 2009.
When [...]
Testing is well under way in our ERM module (Electronic Resource Mangement – a module of our Innovative Interfaces’ Millennium library system).
This allows for the addition of “resource” or database records to the catalogue, each of which describes packages of electronic resources and their associated license conditions. See example on our test server.
More importantly, ERM [...]
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